Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.